Posted on 03/07/2014 9:28:46 PM PST by barmag25
UPDATE [12:37]: Tuoi Tre, a leading daily in Vietnam, reports that the Vietnamese Navy has confirmed the plane crashed into the ocean. According to Navy Admiral Ngo Van Phat, Commander of the Region 5, military radar recorded that the plane crashed into the sea at a location 153 miles South of Phu Quoc island.
When contacted, Malaysia Airlines declined to confirm or deny the reports, saying that the Malaysian authorities are working together with the Vietnamese government on the matter.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera reports that China has dispatched two maritime rescue ships to help locate the missing plane.
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Cell calls are impossible in most airflights, unless there is a system the cell signal can ride, down to a tower.
Thanks.
God rest all those souls.
I worked for many years in that area, surveying for gas exploration and cable installations. If indeed she did go down there, the salvage should go easy, as the sea there is rarely more than 50 metres deep.
However, in the case of a catastrophic disintegration, the debris field would be huge.
http://my.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraft-goes-missing—says-airline-023820132.html
...Flight MH370, operated on the B777-200 aircraft, departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41am and was expected to land in Beijing at 6.30am the same day...
Good point. Either shot down or terrorism seen to be the most likely. It it not often planes break apart over the ocean on their own
Pretty hard to make cell calls over the sea.. just sayin
I agree with you. I hope we get the full story, and for some reason, my mind keeps turning back to the story of TWA800.
“Or maybe it was accidently shot down.”
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Nothing wrong with your scenario, though, barring the cell phone tech issue. There’d have been radio traffic in anything but a very sudden event.
Could be there wasn’t, could be there was but hasn’t been reported yet.
i am guessing that whatever happened,happened so suddenly,the pilot had no chance to report any problems or accident,it’s as if either there was an explosion or a swift terrorist attack.
The tip of the wing of the same Malaysian Airlines Boeing broke off Aug. 9, 2012, as it was taxiing at Pudong International Airport outside Shanghai. The wingtip collided with the tail of a China Eastern Airlines A340 plane. No one was injured.
Did this aircraft drop off radar shortly after reaching its cruise altitude? If so, sounds like a triggered device or human-caused detonation of explosive based on reaching its ceiling altitude.
Shut up, newbie. Wait for the facts.
Very few airplane incidents/accidents happen at cruising altitude. There are no major control inputs happening which would put stress on the hull or hydraulics and the engines are just humming along.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/03/08/report-vietnam-detects-signals-missing-plane.html
Signals picked by Viet
Boeing is inspecting for Wing crack in another of their products (787s)
Sad. Rip to the victims and their families.
Why not? How is it less valid than any of the other speculations we love to do on FR?
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